“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.” UseShowsJobsUsedCareersStreetsWallDegreesConnectionsAthleteCreditHatedLeagueScoreNo MoneyIvyProfessional AthleteIvy LeagueDartmouthCredit Scores Author:Brian J. White
“I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.” TwoDifferentLightUsedSpeakCasesMaterialsTheoryProveConnectionsDifficultyExperimentsBeing TrueAgentsChiefsReasonableQuartersElectricGlobesCarbonExaggerationElectric LightBamboo Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.” UsedSportsTermPlayerExampleProtectProgramConnectionsActiveProtectionAidsSoccerKicksSwimHivProtect YouHelmetMalariaSoccer PlayerPolio Author:Carol Bellamy
“The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.” WayFirstsDoeProblemUsedSpeakGivenTermBehaviorConcernedConnectionsFunctionRelationStructureSeriesTendenciesDefinedRegionsProbabilitySystematicCircuitsNeuronsManifold Author:Anatol Rapoport
“The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.” ShouldMayDoeSeemsUsedStarsTermActingStruggleWorstDirectorsAngelShadowConnectionsInstanceCodeDemonAppropriateTomsBuddyBosomsSequelsPredecessorsMotion PicturesPacingNadirDa Vinci Code Author:James Berardinelli
“We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.” SchoolUsedSocialEasyMediaOffersConnectionsSocial MediaInstantCharacteristicsTunesParticipationGratificationInstant Gratification Author:Adora Svitak
“The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.” ThinkingHas BeensDifferentProblemFormUsedTakenSpeechConnectionsVarietyThoughtfulLogicalInterpretationIntentionality Book:Science and metaphysics: variations on Kantian themes Source: Science and metaphysics: variations on Kantian themes
“When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos.” PeopleKindSchoolUsedCertainTermCommunityConnectionsZoneTemporaryThinkerSufiAutonomousEthosGinsberg Author:Anne Waldman
“I loved my baby dolls when I was a kid. I used to pray with them and say good night to each and every one of them because I didn't want their feelings to get hurt. I remember having that connection with my baby dolls.” WantFeelingsKidsRememberUsedNightHurtBabyPrayingConnectionsDollsGood NightMy Baby Author:Jessica Alba
“Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.” ThinkingWellsUsedMagicConnectionsMedicineIntentionInnocenceLegends Author:Sean Penn
“Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism.” PeopleHomeBigsUsedInformationCommunicationBecomingInternetConnectionsPhonesCommunicateUsed To BeCellsMechanismTraveledCell PhoneBig ChangesBroadband Author:Esther Dyson
“I used the Internet to keep really close contact with my fans. I think that one thing I brought over the ocean with me was the connection with my fans. They went through the process with me. They're very supportive of me, but I was nervous about that. I didn't want to make it seem like I was abandoning them.” ThinkingWantSeemsUsedProcessOne ThingFansInternetOceanConnectionsContactNervousSupportive Author:Stella Soleil
“I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.” EnoughUsedLove IsWonderLuckyConnectionsCore Author:Benjamin Stone
“It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.” KnowsWayMeanFactsUsedLevelsBrainYouthConnectionsUsed To BeFixed Author:Philippa Perry
“Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.” StatesSeemsUsedPracticeRight NowEnlightenmentYogaConnectionsDeeperAccessDimensionsEnlightenedFlexibilityYoga Practice Author:Bryan Kest
“Love is definitely a foundation, a spiritual connection that makes peace. Also it is the change in the world. People don't get so hung up on it any more as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.” PeopleWorldFeelsSpiritualUsedLove IsConnectionsFoundationInstanceHungMaking PeaceSpiritual Connection Author:Tina Turner
“There are abusive practices that have been used in connection with various mental attitudes or feelings. Over-medication in respect to depression is an example that comes to mind. The aversive therapies that have been used in connection with same-sex attraction have contained some serious abuses that have been recognized over time within the professions.” MindHas BeensFeelingsUsedSexAttitudePracticeExampleSeriousConnectionsAbuseVariousAttractionProfessionTherapyMedicationAbusiveMental Attitude Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.” ThinkingFeelsTryingDifferentUsedLike YouDrugToolsConnectionsPlantMarijuanaBeneficialPsychedelicMushroomsPsychedelic DrugsOrganic LifePeyote Author:Joe Rogan
“When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.” IfsYearsLooksPersonsSeemsHappensFormUsedThreeSimpleImpossibleBuildingWalkingOne DayConnectionsDryLook UpGoing AwayThree YearsPizzaCleanersReferringDeep ConnectionsDry Cleaners Book:How Did You Get This Number Source: How Did You Get This Number
“Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.” WorldWayGivingHumansKindMayI CanUsedLeftConditionsAwarenessMissingOffersBuiltConnectionsStriveSatisfactionLovelyHungryUsed To BeTensionFedsSensationsTemporaryYearningBeing HumanInsatiableHollowness Author:Caroline Knapp
“Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.” PeopleUsedWomenAbilityHistoryTalentGreatnessGloryOrdinaryWeaknessIdealsConnectionsAssumingExtraordinaryLimitationExceptionalOrdinary PeopleShowcase Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss
“Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.” TogetherLife IsUsedPiecesSeeingConnectionsLuckSurpriseUnusualCoincidenceFragmentsInterconnectedUnusual Things Author:Deepak Chopra